The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.